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Whether you are an educator, a coach, a business leader or an organization,
we have workshops and presentations to fit your needs
we have workshops and presentations to fit your needs
Our team is committed and passionate in working with wide-ranging community stakeholders, groups, and workplaces to advance gender equality and prevent all forms of gender-based violence. In addition to one-off workshops, trainings, and presentations, White Ribbon supports organizations, workplaces, and institutions with employee engagement programs, policy development, and culture change. Visit our Technical Assistance page for more information and examples of that work.
OUR APPROACH
White Ribbon workshops are conducted after a safe space is created for participants and after the acknowledgment that gender-based violence affects everyone, including male-identified individuals, but that women and girls (including transgender women and girls) are disproportionately and severely impacted by men’s violence. Participants are encouraged to share their views, experiences, and insights on gender-based violence, with the goal of promoting positive roles for male-identified individuals to end gender-based violence. Please reach out to us to enquire about fees.
White Ribbon workshops are conducted after a safe space is created for participants and after the acknowledgment that gender-based violence affects everyone, including male-identified individuals, but that women and girls (including transgender women and girls) are disproportionately and severely impacted by men’s violence. Participants are encouraged to share their views, experiences, and insights on gender-based violence, with the goal of promoting positive roles for male-identified individuals to end gender-based violence. Please reach out to us to enquire about fees.
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Building Ally-ship Together With Women and Girls to End Gender-Based Violence 1 hour-1.5 hours This one-hour introductory workshop is designed to foster understanding about the root causes of gender-based violence (gender norms and expectations) and ways male-identified individuals can prevent it. This workshop explores the history and work of White Ribbon and introduces approaches to building ally-ship: understanding emotions, healthy masculinities, identifying one’s power and privilege, consent, ways to intervene when violence occurs, and how to be a positive role model to other male-identified youth/adults. |
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Preventing Sexual Exploitation as Educators by Fostering Male Allyship
1 hour - 1.5 hours With increasing rates of sexual exploitation amongst female-identifying and vulnerable youth, this workshop gives educators practical tools and lesson plans to engage youth towards prevention. Join us in exploring White Ribbon's new educational resource wrprevent.ca, to learn about the root causes, forms, risk factors, and prevention approaches. Virtual workshop is free for Ontario-based elementary and secondary educators. |
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Parents & Caregivers Preventing Sexual Exploitation by Fostering Male Allyship
1 hour - 1,5 hours Increasing rates of sexual exploitation amongst female-identifying and vulnerable youth is a cause for concern. This workshop gives parents and caregivers practical tools and information to engage their youth towards prevention. Join us in exploring White Ribbon's new educational resource wrprevent.ca, to learn about the root causes, forms, risk factors, and prevention approaches. Virtual workshop is free for Ontario-based parent councils. |
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PA Day: Supporting Ontario School Boards' Anti-Sex Trafficking Policy - WRPrevent.ca Educational Resource
1 - 3 Hours This workshop unpacks the issues of sex trafficking, youth who may be at risk and ways that educators can intervene. While highlighting the WRPrevent.ca teacher resources (9 lesson plans and accompanying guides), educators will be empowered to support their school boards' plan to implement their anti-sex trafficking policy. |
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Preventing Online Sexual Exploitation Together
1-1.5 hours This free workshop for Ontario secondary students will equip participants with key information about the impact of online sexual exploitation on Ontario youth and how to prevent it. Students will learn about how traffickers approach their victims, how to remain safe online, identifying warning signs of sexual exploitation, and how to ask for help in situations of exploitation. In addition, participants will learn preventative skills such as consent, healthy relationships, allyship and bystander intervention. |
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Building Ally-ship and Unpacking “Bro-Culture”
2-2.5 hours This workshop contains all the elements from Option 1. Additionally, participants will be engaged in questioning systems of violence (white male privilege, rape culture and ‘bro’ culture) present within traditional and social media, and explore ways to promote gender equality and healthy masculinities. Through guided discussions and activities, participants will identify ways of challenging toxic masculinity and of promoting healthy relationships as well as a positive sense of self. |
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Building Ally-ship through Consent Culture and Effective Bystander Intervention 2-2.5 hours
This workshop builds the capacity of participants to grow consent culture in their communities and effectively speak out when they see or hear violence. Through guided discussions and activities, participants will identify ways of challenging toxic masculinity and of promoting healthy relationships as well as a positive sense of self. Through guided role play, participants will develop the skills they need to begin to have courageous but challenging conversations. |
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Building Ally-ship and Exploring My Own Role and Commitment to Ending Gender-Based Violence
4 hours This workshop contains all the elements from Options 1-3 and builds participants’ capacity to be agents of change within themselves and their communities, using a variety of experiential learning techniques to improve communication, through increased emotional intelligence. Participants will have the opportunity to practice skills in supporting survivors, challenging unequal gender norms, fostering empathy, listening actively and promoting consent. |
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Building Ally-ship through Storytelling and Action Planning
6.5 hours plus breaks This full-day workshop contains all of the elements from Options 1-4, and builds the capacity of participants to be agents of change within themselves and their communities by engaging in action planning aimed at preventing gender-based violence. Specifically, participants will be guided through a process of brainstorming and then prioritizing initiatives into a concrete action plan. This workshop also gives participants the opportunity to explore and tell their own story of how they think about gender, and connect with participants to support each other in expanding their ideas. In-depth action planning is facilitated to guide community-based organizations, professionals in their advocacy. |
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White Ribbon Draw-the-Line (DTL) Workshop: Post-Secondary Sector
1.5 hrs Be inspired and walk away with skills and confidence to challenge rape culture and foster male accountability to prevent sexual violence on and off campus. White Ribbon DTL workshops have the following objectives.
Draw-the-Line is funded by the Ontario Government. |
What our community partners are saying about us:
Facilitators from White Ribbon came to our Grade 12 Equity and Social Justice class and ran a very organized, personal, and engaging workshop with 31 students. Jarvis is a very diverse school with many complex gender identities. White Ribbon facilitators were sensitive, without holding back on key messages, including the impact of toxic masculinity on all gender identities, as well as ways that we can all be a part of the solution to ending gender-based violence. I would be very happy to have them facilitate again.
-Cindy Watson, B.A, B.Ed.,M.S.W., Educator, Jarvis C.I.
White Ribbon facilitated Building Ally-Ship and Unpacking “Bro-Culture” workshop with us. It was a very interactive session that led to great discussion. It started the conversation about what we as student leaders can do on our campus to prevent gender based violence, and allowed us to create realistic goals on how get there.
- Jacob Chevrier, Georgian College
